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Add Black Canary, Captain Atom to DC's 'co-feature' roster
- Posted on March 30, 2009 - 08:51 AM by Kevin Melrose
Black Canary, by Chris Bachalo
Yesterday's New York Times article about rising cover prices contained at least one bit of news: the final two DC Comics characters that will star in their own "co-features."
It looks as if Black Canary and Captain Atom will join Blue Beetle, Manhunter, the Metal Men, The Question (Renee Montoya) and Ravager in the lineup of back-up stories in the publisher's $3.99 titles.
Neither the creative teams nor the titles in which the stories will appear have been announced. Presumably, the Black Canary co-feature will be added to Green Arrow/Black Canary. (Of course, there's also the possibility the title could simply revert to Green Arrow.)
The following 10-page co-features will debut in June: Blue Beetle in Booster Gold; Manhunter in the new Batman: Streets of Gotham; The Question in Detective Comics; and Ravager in Teen Titans.
The Metal Men story will appear in the relaunched Doom Patrol series.
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16 Comments
rwe1138
March 30, 2009 at 9:21 am
Hey, maybe we'll finally get some resolution to the whole Captain Atom/Monarch/Countdown fiasco.
Martin Gray
March 30, 2009 at 9:28 am
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/03/add-black-canary-captain-atom-to-dcs-co-feature-roster/
Black Canary? Er, she has a title already - giving her a 'co-feature' is saying that her supposed book belongs to her hubby.
Captain Atom? Great, about time he was redeemed - er, he is being redeemed, isn't he?
TimCallahan
March 30, 2009 at 9:34 am
I'd love to see the back-up features used for work that's a bit more visually daring -- or a bit less like the DC house style. That would make me interested.
Jake1823
March 30, 2009 at 10:09 am
Where's that Bachalo pic from?
Ryan Alex
March 30, 2009 at 10:29 am
I'd rather see a Huntress backup. BC's already got a book.
Kelson
March 30, 2009 at 11:16 am
Maybe they're splitting the title up again?
Or turning GA/BC into a two-feature book, with separate GA and BC stories?
Randy
March 30, 2009 at 11:59 am
I bet black canary will be the backup for batgirl.
Ian A.
March 30, 2009 at 12:00 pm
So...three of the seven back-up features are (revamped) Charlton properties?
Strange coincidence.
Jake1823
March 30, 2009 at 12:10 pm
3 co-features is enough is to call it a "strange coincidence"?
Evan
March 30, 2009 at 5:17 pm
I think Captain Atom's going to be in one of the Superman books.
Robinson and Johns were talking about using him quite a bit during last year's con season. So something tells me that's where he'll turn up.
Kirk Warren
March 30, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Not sure how to feel about these co-features anymore. they were great at first when there were a select few. Now, it seems like every few days is a new co-featuer announcement, which just means more $3.99 books. Gone is the elation of obscure favourites showing up and now the grim reality that there are a half dozen or more $3.99 monthlies to contend with and, more than likely, more on the way.
Grico
March 30, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Manhunter remains the only one I have a real significant interest in. They seem to be really embracing this. What % of the line is going to be with backups now? It is starting to be significant.
Mambazo
March 31, 2009 at 12:21 am
Kirk there's only going to be 7 co-features for now. They're hardly taking over the market.
Sleestak
March 31, 2009 at 9:47 pm
It's the DC EXPLOSION again!
RichardAK
April 4, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Martin, saying that Captain Atom needs to be redeemed is to acknowledge that the events of what rwe1138 rightly terms that "whole...fiasco" ever really happened. As far as I'm concerned, Cap has not put in an appearance since the end of Captain Atom: Armageddon. As such, I'm very much looking forward to this new backup feature. I just hope that whoever is writing it, whether it's Robinson and Johns or whoever, is someone who gets the character. There have been few writers since Bates and Weisman who really understood what makes Cap unique and interesting.
Ryan, I agree with you that it would be great to see Huntress get a backup feature, especially since the Canary already shares a title with Green Arrow and leads the Justice League, and since Birds of Prey has been canceled, at least for the nonce.
Shreyas
April 13, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Canary's got a backup feature in the 'Green Arrow' comics [I noticed one of the recent comics had the list, and it only mentioned Arrow without the Canary- presumably to go along with Ollie's decision to be a hard travelling hero again]. Honestly, after all the character growth during the Birds of Prey run, the last couple of years have been a huge step back for Dinah. Before Birds of Prey, she was weak and almost incapable of putting up the fight her skills suggested. She grew to demonstrate a fierce warrior's spirit, and even a few months ago didn't mind putting the Trinity in its place in the Justice League. Overal, however, it seems like getting her away from the Birds of Prey comic has resulted in writers using her as little more than a supporting character. She is barely visible in a JLA she has chaired, and has been depicted as too weak a leader to inspire heroes to be a part of the JLA. In her own series, after a bright start, recent issues have seen her be a supporting character to Green Arrow and sometimes in need of rescues she wouldn't have needed two years ago. I would love to see her back with Gail Simone again, 'cos the JLA and Arrow/Canary writers clearly don't rate her very highly...